My Experience Building DevCommunity.org in Flutter
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Built a public site called DevCommunity.org in Flutter web that pulls meetup and YouTube feeds, caches a JSON in Firebase Storage via Firebase Functions running every six hours, and auto-deploys to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions. The site runs on web and can be packaged for iOS/Android with minor tweaks, hot restart speeds iteration, and code is open source on GitHub. Notable gaps: accessibility is off by default, text selection and SEO behave oddly, and web integration tests sometimes report false passes.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:15A web talk at an Android conference?
- 1:05About Me
- 1:54Why I believe in cross-platform
- 3:50Do you have a passion project?
- 6:49DevCommunity
- 10:06Choosing a Tech Stack
- 11:10Why Flutter Web?
- 12:30Why Firebase?
- 13:09Firebase Functions +
- 13:30Meetup Data
- 14:27Lib folder - all your shared Flutter application code
- 16:31Configuration
- 19:13Testing Inconsistencies on Web...
- 19:55Localization
- 21:42Accessibility
- 24:21Responsive Design
- 33:55Challenges
- 35:52What's Next?
- 38:37Resources
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